Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.
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Library Journal Starred, January 2009 Pub Weekly, December 2008 Kirkus Review, January 2009 Multicultural Review, June 2009 Library Journal Starred Pub Weekly Kirkus Review
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